Palm tree

Coconut oil [8001-31-8] is one of the primary vegetable oils used in the manufacture of soap products. Coconut oil is obtained from the dried fmit (copra) of the coconut palm tree. The fmit is dried either in the sun or over open fires from burning the husks of the fmit, with the oil pressed out of the dried fmit. 

Palm kernel oil [8023-79-8] obtained from the nuts of the palm tree, is another frequently utilized vegetable oil and is somewhat similar in properties and composition to coconut oil (see Table 1). 

Palm oil[8002-75-3] is derived from the fleshy fmit of the palm tree rather than the nut as with palm kernel oil. Palm oil has a longer chain length distribution than palm kernel oil and provides properties and compositions more similar to tallow than to other vegetable oils (see Table 1). 

Ouncury Wax. Ouricury wax [68917-70-4] is a brown wax obtained from the fronds of a palm tree which grows in Bra2il. Ouricury is difficult to harvest, as it does not flake off the frond as does camauba wax rather, it must be scraped free. Ouricury is sometimes used as a replacement for camauba in apphcations that do not require alight-colored wax. 

Assuming axi-symmetrical deformation, simulation of the complete micromirror surface has been found to have a "palm-tree" shape, with t5q)ical maximum deformation less than 2 nm. This shape can be explained by strain relaxation in the thin aluminum layer constituting the mirror surface (Zamkotsian and Dohlen, 1999). 

Palm leaf was the main material used for writing in southwest Asia before the introduction of paper. It was made by drying and processing the leaves of various palm trees in manners that varied in different areas the most commonly used leaves were those of Corypha umbraculiphera, the fan palm, and of Borasus flabellifer, the palmyra palm. 

Camauba wax is obtained from the leaves of several species of palm trees in South America, such as Copemicia cerifem which grows in Brazil. It is made up of esters of long chain alcohols and acids with high carbon number, high molecular weight polyesters of hydroxyacids, and derivatives of p-hydroxy- and p-methoxycinnamic acid [84]. 

The nut of a palm tree is chewed by millions is Asia and elsewhere with the leaves of Piper betel to produce mild stimulatory effects. Arecolin and arecaidinen are among the active constituents, but they... 

The coconut is an unusual food for many reasons. It is technically a seed, produced by the coconut palm tree, and as such is one of the largest edible seeds produced by any plant. Its unusual contents also make it unique in the seed world—the interior consists of both meat and water. The meat is the white pith with which we are all familiar, as it is used extensively for cooking and flavorings the coconut water is a white liquid that is very sweet and thirst-quenching. 

And all these are only some of the uses found for the coconut fruit. The coconut palm tree, which produces the nut, also produces coundess useful items. It s no wonder that the coconut palm has been called the tree of life. ... 

Different types of LCB are distinguished. Star polymers are the simplest branched polymers because they have only one branch point. Regular star polymers have a branch point with a constant number (functionality,/) of arms and every arm has the same molecular weight. They are therefore monodisperse polymers. Star polymers may also have arms with a most probable distribution [5], Star polymers can also be polydisperse due to a variable functionality. Palm tree [6] or umbrella polymers [7] that contain a single arm with different molecular weight (MW) than the other arms are classified under the asymmetric star [8] polymers, see Figure 3.2. 

Figure 3.2 Regular star polymers with f= 3 and f=6 and an asymmetric palm tree or umbrella polymer.

Platzner I, Degani N (1990) Fractionation of stable calcium isotopes in tissues of date palm trees. Biomed Environ Mass Spect 19 822-824... 

Areca (Areca catechu) is a palm tree that grows up to 30 meters in height (Gruenwald et al. 1998 Robbers et al. 1996). It is cultivated in India, southeast Asia, the East Indies, and East Africa. It grows green leaflets and numerous flowers. The fruit of the areca palm is a nut that contains a single seed and a thin seed coat (figure 4.10). Areca is chewed alone or... 

Areca (Areca catechu) is a tall palm tree that yields a nut, commonly chewed in Asia for its stimulant effects. It is discussed at greater length in chapter 4, but is mentioned here briefly for its cognitive effects. Areca s psychoactive constituents (arecoline, arecaidine, guvacoline, and guvacine) are agonists at muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. They also directly inhibit reuptake of GABA. 

American dwarf palm tree United States Serenoa repens... 

Bryce Canyon, a hillside of deciduous trees in autumn, the Overture of 1812, horses, a smiling little girl, Horsehead nebula, rings of Saturn, snow-capped mountain in a forest, palm trees on a Caribbean beach, newborn human infant, looks that pass between couples who have been happily married for 30 years, Ferrari Modena, Quebec City, the late Marian Anderson s voice, Newton s solution of the brachistochrone problem, a fresh pizza Martin Luther King Junior s I Have... 

Three pirates arrived on an island after successfully relieving a merchant of his bars of gold. The pirates put their booty in a pile in the center of the island and all fell asleep while guarding the gold. After a while, the first pirate woke up and decided to take his share of the gold and hide it. So he buried his fair share of the gold bars under a palm tree and went back to sleep. 

Biological waxes find a variety of applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and other industries. Lanolin (from lamb s wool), beeswax (Fig. 10-5), camauba wax (from a Brazilian palm tree), and wax extracted from spermaceti oil (from whales see Box 10-1) are widely used in the manufacture of lotions, ointments, and polishes. 

Carnauba wax (Brazil wax) comes from leaves of the Copernicia cerifera, a South American palm tree. It melts at about 185° — 195°F, and is the hardest and toughest of the natural waxes. It consists mostly of all cerotic acid ester of myrical alcohol... 

If the winds at the latitude of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., were from the east rather than from the west, why might San Francisco be able to grow cherry trees and Washington, D.C., palm trees ... 

Ruggieri s Russian fire, as his son later described it, consisted of crystallized copper acetate 4 parts, copper sulfate 2 parts, and ammonium chloride 1 part,13 all finely pulverized and mixed with alcohol, and placed upon cotton wick attached to spikes upon the thin metal pieces which were the leaves of the palm tree. The resulting display would not be impressive according to modern standards. 

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